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STAYING POWER: Erica Busillo Adams, president of the Rhode Island chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, says a front-line fundraiser will double their salary with a nonprofit from their first year on the job to the next. But if that person leaves, the organization takes a major financial hit, she says. PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

What happens when nonprofits struggle to hire fundraisers, financial professionals?

Business Services 10/25/2024

COVID-19 may be in the rearview mirror for most, but it’s left Rhode Island’s nonprofits with a rocky, challenging road to navigate. A 2024 survey...

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5Q: Courtney Bourns

Business Services 10/25/2024

Courtney Bourns | Executive director, Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island 1. When you were first brought aboard at the council, board President Thomas Brendler...

PAOLA FERNANDEZ, senior vice president and community development officer for Centreville Bank, has been elected as the new chairperson of the United Way of Rhode Island Inc.’s board of directors. / COURTESY UNITED WAY OF RHODE ISLAND INC.

United Way of R.I. elects Fernandez as new board chair

Financial Services 09/23/2024

PROVIDENCE – Paola Fernandez, Centreville Bank’s senior vice president and community development officer, has been elected as the new chairperson of the United Way...

COURTNEY BOURNS has been named the Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island's new executive director. / COURTESY GRANTMAKERS COUNCIL OF RHODE ISLAND

Grantmakers Council of R.I. names Bourns new executive director

News Story 07/16/2024

PROVIDENCE – Courtney Bourns, who has served as a strategy and program consultant for multiple foundations across the country for the last six years,...

Survey: Local nonprofits still facing ongoing challenges

Nonprofit 03/26/2024

PROVIDENCE – Low pay and limited benefits offered for employees due to having few resources, having few donors contributing to their causes and responding...

PLAYTIME: Jordan Towle, a visitor services manager at the Providence Children’s Museum, plays with Jorge Rodrigues, 1, of Providence. The museum, according to Executive Director Caroline Payson, relies on ticket sales and membership fees to bolster operating costs.  PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Finding workforce is labor intensive for local nonprofits

Business Services 10/27/2023

The COVID-19 pandemic’s cascading aftereffects have been complicated and hard to shake for Rhode Island’s nonprofits, which employ 67,000 Rhode Islanders. That number represents...

United Way of R.I. to launch nonprofit resource center in fall,...

News Story 07/31/2023

PROVIDENCE – Nancy Wolanski feels Rhode Island’s nonprofit sector is overlooked, under resourced and there are not enough adequate investments in the capacity of...